Principal had canceled event after February senior prank in school

12:47 PM,
May 5, 2013

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Jay Rodgers, owner of Mixx Ultralounge in Over-the-Rhine and a 1993 Withrow High School graduate, was not happy when he heard that his alma mater would not have a prom this year.

Withrow principal Sharon Johnson in February canceled the Hyde Park school's prom after a senior prank - an in-school water-balloon fight - unfolded in spite of multiple warnings from Johnson that students would lose prom.

Enter Rodgers and several parents of Withrow students, who thought the punishment too severe for a water-balloon fight. ...